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Brina Kessel Quotes

1925–2016 United States

Brina Cattell Kessel Roof (née Brina Cattell Kessel, November 20, 1925 – March 1, 2016) was an American ornithologist, curator at the University of Alaska Museum, professor, and dean at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She was elected in 1960 a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 1973 a fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU).

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Young puffins are unable to fly when they leave the nest; they fall and flutter to the water below and swim immediately ...

Birds of the Seward Peninsula, Alaska (1989)

Most shearwaters leave the Bering Sea during September and October (Hunt et al. 1981b), but stragglers have been recorded as far north as Barrow as late as any water exists, even to mid-November (Gabrielson and Lincoln 1959).

Birds of the Seward Peninsula, Alaska (1989)

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